The Axiom's captain gets one when he gets out of his hover-chair in order to turn off AUTO. This is accompanied by the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Let that sink in for a minute: the directors of WALL-E managed to turn standing up into a Crowning Moment Of Awesome, complete with Also Sprach Zarathustra.

"I don't want to survive, I wanna live!"

EVE desperately trying to fix WALL-E at the end of the movie, which consists of her flying him back to his home, frantically scavenging through his collection for the parts necessary, eventually starting to move at supersonic speed to install his new parts, and then tops things off by opening up his solar panels and blasting a hole in his roof so the sun could get in. Because moving him outside just would've been too slow.

Hell, the entire movie is easily a CMOA for Pixar.

WALL-E for keeping the holo detector from going back down.... with his body.

Another one for Captain B. McCrea, but this requires some setup. Right after he cries "I don't want to survive, I want to LIVE!", he sees the portraits of the previous Captains - all of whom have AUTO, the corrupt 'power behind the throne' steadily moving up behind them. He gets serious, rights his hat, turns to AUTO, and says "I'm the Captain of the Axiom. We are going home today!"

At this very moment, the blob becomes the man he was meant to be, and humanity (with several assists from Wall*E and Eve) gets control of their own future. Yeah!

WALL-E handing the plant to EVE. "Directive." Long pause. EVE dumps the plant and flies over to him. She has her priorities, and the plant comes second. Yeah, I know, it's nothing special, but that's the moment that really got me.

• WALL-E then goes past her, picks up the plant, and hands it back to her. I took it as duty at any cost.

WALL-E: The most romantic movie of 2008 according to The Academy Awards (or at least the director of the Romance Yearbook Montage).

Mary gets a small one when she flings John across the aisle to save the falling babies. Let me say this again: A woman who has lived her life with little need to make use of any musculature she might have flings a man of roughly equivalent weight across an aisle against gravity to save a group of babies.

M-O leaving the safety of his line in the pursuit of his duty.

• And just how far he goes in the pursuit of his duty afterwards.

EVE, a few minutes after her introduction, when she blows up a series of huge ships (ending in a mushroom cloud) for no reason other than that she's frustrated PISSED.

All the defective robots that WALL-E inadvertently "recruits" from the repair ward start using the song from Hello Dolly as a rallying cry.

"AUTO, you are relieved of duty."

Three words: Defective Massage Robot.

Here's one: WALL-E's in the repair ward, just sitting in his cell, okay it's a bit weird but hey OH MY GOD THEY'RE TORTURING EVE! Instant breakout, rushes through the dazed nurses, crashes through glass, rips EVE's stolen limb from the intern, and points a menacing gun at them. Granted, he's pointing it backwards, and it's comically obvious he's making this up on the fly, but still! He performed badass acts to save the one he loved!

The gambit that the Captain pulls on AUTO where he pretends to hold the plant, drawing AUTO's attention from Wall-E and EVE and allowing them to reach the holo detector. He may not be the most physically imposing specimen of this trope but dammit he's The Captain, born and bred.

The end credits. (NOT a diss at the movie.)

M-O, when he charges into battle against the stewards and tries to clean them into submission, knowing full well that there is nothing more he can do.

Perfection of soundtrack+dialogue+action in another setting: The captain hearing the wiki television define dance, and cutting to Wall E and Eva twirling in the air, matching the beautiful description and the film of the dancing in the television!

M-O, when he shoos everybody away at the end of the movie, realizing that WALL-E and EVE are having a moment.

When Mary sees WALL-E and EVE dancing outside the window, and moves to tell the first person she can about it, and it happens to be John. And then their hands touch, and something beautiful is awakened within the human race for the first time in seven centuries.

How about when EVE is protecting WALL-E near the end of the movie after he's injured, and she threatens the steward bot with her ion cannon? She's just like... the ultimate heroine who protects her man! Woo!

In general, everything the captain does following his realization that EVE and WALL-E are roaming free about the ship with the plant.

When the captain is pretending to hold the plant, he says to AUTO, "You want the plant? Come and get it, blinky."

The part where the captain (he sure gets a lot of these, doesn't he?), having seen images of Earth's past, watches EVEs memories and sees it as being a giant garbage dump... then decides to go back anyway in order to fix it, rather than continue the easy life aboard a luxury cruiser.

That's more than most people ever find the will to do.

And the Captain gets yet another one in the end, when he steers the Axiom back to Earth at hyperspeed with a look of pure joy on his face.

When the robot threw himself (along with the plant) down the garbage disposal, EVE and Captain are shocked, and Wall-e comes up from around a hundred feet down with his bare strength. Plant on his head.

The opening sequence up to the appearance of the title. Never ceases to amaze me.

While it was kinda an accident, M-O saving WALL-E and EVE from going out the airlock.

The Defective Robots (and M-O) use their functions to get the plant to Wall-E.

M-O finding the plant among the crowd during the climax. It's not really that awesome until you consider that M-O saved the human race and the very Earth itself by finding that plant.

To elaborate on the "I don't want to survive, I want to live!" line...pretty much that whole speech is the Crowning Moment of Awesome for me. It's the Captain finally getting to rebel and show his real feelings for something that he's been frustrated with for his entire life. From the first moment he is introduced, his sheer boredom and disdain for the quality of life on the Axiom are obvious, and he finally gets to do something about it.

Captain: But life is sustainable now. Look at this plant. Green and growing. It's living proof he was wrong. AUTO: Irrelevant, Captain. Captain: What? It's completely relevant. Out there is our home. *HOME*, Auto. And it's in trouble. I can't just sit here and-and-do nothing. That's all I've ever done! That's all anyone on this blasted ship has ever done. Nothing!...I don't want to survive. I want to live...I'm the captain of the Axiom. We are going home *today*.

That entire scene is my C Mo A

BURN-E: Made of WIN. Specifically, managing to launch himself out of the ship to FINALLY activate the light(But it get's broken again shortly afterwards).

Wait, the line ends! SCREECH! Okay, it's up now. Let's go.

Everything between John and Mary. The two humans who had contact with WALL-E suddenly begin living life again and humanity is reawakened. One of the best examples of this is when Mary goes "We have a pool?". She's finally seeing past the flashing lights and computer screens.

AUTO turned the entire ship over during the final fight. This may not seem like much considering that he IS a steering wheel, but it shows that he can influence his ENTIRE ENVIRONMENT when it suits him. Just let that sink in a bit.

When EVE rockets out of the rubbish chute, locks the steward in the room while carrying WALL-E and when AUTO sees the rogue robots warning "NOT...POSSIBLE..." before activating every steward on the ship (and then the stewards getting slaughtered by the massage bot). One big CMOA.